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Cormac Begley.
A PROJECT from a west Kerry native is one of 36 on the island of Ireland to receive funding from the Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund.
Bank of Ireland, in partnership with Business to Arts, today announced the projects spanning music, theatre, dance, traditional arts, and the visual arts which will receive support from the first phase of the Fund.
Each project will receive between €3,000 and €10,000 (or the Sterling equivalent) out of a total amount of €300,000.
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Cormac Begley’s project is a selection of traditional music compositions that resonate emotionally and thematically with the stories heard during the artist’s PhD research and with his own personal experiences of growing up male in Ireland.
The music will be presented in outdoor, site-specific settings such as school car parks, nursing homes, universities and outdoor festivals. It will be premiered at Feile na Bealtaine in May 2021 and recorded by the festival to share widely.
Funding of €300,000 will be provided to artworks or arts projects which have been inspired by the experience of living through COVID-19 or have been adapted in response to the pandemic.
The all-island Begin Together Arts Fund will make a total of €1 million in arts funding available over three years and will open for a second round of applications in April.
